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Xanthoria parietina
Beautiful golden cups, bowls, leaves, plaques, plates. This lichen completely covers large sections of stone-fruit tree (maybe apricot?).
Suburban back yard.
The tree doesn't seem to be suffering from this coverage.
Spotted on Feb 22, 2012
Submitted on Feb 28, 2012
2 Comments
Thanks so much Clive.
At least that is an Aus species.
Knowing nothing about lichens, I wonder will this eventually kill the tree when it spreads far enough?